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    Serious Sam: The First Encounter

    Game » consists of 6 releases. Released Mar 21, 2001

    A first-person shooter where players shoot hordes of relentless monsters while trying to save Earth from Mental and his forces.

    Anyone else pick this up?

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    #1  Edited By Diamond

    Went live a few hours ago on Steam.  It's pretty good.  I never played the original SS, but there doesn't seem to be quite as much interesting action as Second Encounter had.  The game has the typical SHIT TONS of graphics options for PC gamers, but it runs 60fps most of the time on my PC on all ultra settings.  When I stopped playing I was ranked 26th in the world (and I took a break to answer the door and get some food).
     
    Anyways, here are some screenshots that I took.
     

     After one of the early battles, it's hard to take SS and fight...
     After one of the early battles, it's hard to take SS and fight...
     Pretty scene, this is where I stopped playing for now
     Pretty scene, this is where I stopped playing for now
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    #2  Edited By Oriental_Jams

    Looks pretty pretty. I'm really after a Serious Sam 3 though.

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    I owned this for the PS2(the non HD version) which I bought for 10$ at a dollar store haha, it was a simple and fun game though, I enjoyed it.

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    #4  Edited By eroticfishcake

    I've only got the original on my PC but I do remember it being both pretty and fun to play. Apart from the graphics overhaul, is there anything new in this version?

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    #5  Edited By mattjam3000

    A G Bomb quicklook on this would be insane

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    #6  Edited By clapperdude

    I'll likely try this out at some point. I've actually only played a demo of SS waaay back when...and never got round to playing the full version...so maybe this will be an excuse to do that.

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    #7  Edited By Diamond
    @dcpc10: Definitely, but the thing I'll always think of is how many graphics options these guys put in the games.
     
     This is about 1/3 of the graphics options in the game!
     This is about 1/3 of the graphics options in the game!
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    #8  Edited By beargirl1
    @Diamond: my god, those are some astounding options. the game does look great though. damn great. 
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    #9  Edited By Hamst3r

     
    Yes, bought and installed! I haven't played it yet, but I plan on getting into it later tonight.

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    #10  Edited By sasnipes

    Yay, got this but haven't installed it.  Loved the Second Encounter, but never played the first.  Looking forward to the craziness over Thanksgiving :D

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    #11  Edited By jakob187

    I really really really really really really really really really really really really really hope this shit is coming to XBL.  I have no access to this stuff on Steam!!!

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    #12  Edited By Diamond
    @jakob187: It is, they just got the PC version out earlier.  It seemed to me that the PC version may really be far more optimal in this case though, which is why I got it on PC.  I'll check out the trial just to see how it holds up, whenever the XBLA version comes out.
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    #13  Edited By abdo
    @eroticfishcake: 
     
    16 player co-op/multiplayer, as far as I know
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    #14  Edited By piderman

    I must caution against playing this game with any kind of controller. It's meant to be frantic, lots of monsters, like the quicklook. While controllers work fine for Halo 3, I fear the devs have to make the game deliberately easier for XBLA. Anyway, I own the original SSFE and SSSE, and still picked this up, both to support the devs, and for the leaderboards :D

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    #15  Edited By fox01313

    Yes got it & found that it's just as fun now with the better graphics, forgot how much of hell it can get at times as even the normal difficulty is often really brutal. Still having problems with remembering where all the secrets are at. After seeing the great work Croteam did on this, I'm really excited to see the 2nd encounter on the 360 esp. the final level :).
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    #16  Edited By Karmum

    Wow, that looks really nice. Wish my computer could run this that well.

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    #17  Edited By BritishNacho

     
    I guess?

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